Association d'Initiatives Locales pour l'Energie et l'Environnement (AILE)

AILE is a local energy agency created in 1995 under the European SAVE programme in partnership with ADEME of Brittany (Agency for Environment and Energy Management) and FRCUMA Ouest (Western Regional Federation of Co-operatives for the Use of Farming Engines).
Statutorily AILE (Association of Local Initiatives in the field of Energy and Environment) is a non profit association created according to the French 1901 law on non profit organizations.
AILE is working on renewable energies and energy savings in agricultural and rural areas of Western France.
AILE's usual partners are both farmers and local authorities. Its three main missions are: energy issues at local level in rural areas, non food biomass valorization (development of biogas production, development of woodchips boilers and supply chain, Short Rotation Coppice of willow, combustion of energy herbaceous crops, biochar), and diagnosis of farm engines.